A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

by Joanne Meyerowitz and Joanne J. Meyerowitz

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A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women

A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why antipoverty programs...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691206333

ISBN13:9780691206332

Release Date:April 2021

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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